A new evacuation from the besieged Mariupol began on Wednesday, reports CNN.
A column of buses left Mariupol for Zaporizhzhya by the efforts of the UN and the Red Cross, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, said on Telegram. According to him, the convoy will stop in Tokmak, Vasilyevka and Lunacharsky to pick up more civilians along the way..
According to Kirilenko, private cars will be able to join the column from Tomak.
He did not specify whether the evacuees were hiding at the Azovstal metallurgical plant, where the defenders of Mariupol withstand Russian shelling..